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Our nation's debt is literally indenturing our children to our international debt holders, but most Americans don't care because they are more concerned about the latest saga involving Snooki on Jersey Shore rather than what really matters, our country’s future.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Obama to slash National Guard force on U.S.-Mexico border - Washington Times

I think the real reason for the cut is Obama is behind in the polls and needs more voters to cross the border before November.

Blaming budget cuts, the Obama administration early next year will cut the number of National Guard troops patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border by at least half, according to a congressman who was briefed on the plan.

The National Guard said an announcement will be made by the White House “in the near future,” but Rep. Duncan Hunter,
a California Republican who has learned of the plans, said slashing the
deployment in half is the minimum number, and he said it will mean
reshuffling the remaining troops along the nearly 2,000-mile border.

In California, that will mean going from 264 Guard troops down to just 14, he said.

Mr. Hunter said the pending cuts are another reason Congress
and President Obama should revisit the automatic defense spending
reductions that kicked in with the failure last month of the deficit
super-committee to reach a broader spending deal.

“What’s apparent
now is that a decision not to continue their deployment, even though it
might be in the national interest to do so, would be based entirely on
budget constraints on the Defense Department,” Mr. Hunter said.

Mr.
Obama deployed 1,200 guard troops to the border in June 2010 in an
effort to bolster the U.S. Border Patrol and try to prevent the growing
drug violence in Mexico from spilling into the U.S.